Help Lg Optimus M and Clockworkmod? Does it Work?

[Brickey]

So I am dowgraded to 2.1 and rooted with ginger break.
I just got a new LG Optimus M. After trying to install custom recovery my phone went into
Fastboot mode. I followed the get out fastboot thread to no avail, tried soft reset,nothing.
I finally had to hardreset my phone using lgnspt in emergencey mode, which zeroed out my settings. Even after trying to Flash Stock rom 2.1. I couldnt get service. I used Qpst nothing.
So I took my phone to metro told a half truth and got a new phone. I want to avoid this headache from happening again my question is this. Has anyone here with an LG Optimus M successfully Installed ClockWorkMod and rom Manager???

 

[Crex321]

So I am dowgraded to 2.1 and rooted with ginger break.
I just got a new LG Optimus M. After trying to install custom recovery my phone went into
Fastboot mode. I followed the get out fastboot thread to no avail, tried soft reset,nothing.
I finally had to hardreset my phone using lgnspt in emergencey mode, which zeroed out my settings. Even after trying to Flash Stock rom 2.1. I couldnt get service. I used Qpst nothing.
So I took my phone to metro told a half truth and got a new phone. I want to avoid this headache from happening again my question is this. Has anyone here with an LG Optimus M successfully Installed ClockWorkMod and rom Manager???

They aren't really for our phones. I tried to get the CWM recovery and I went into fastboot as well. Try a different recovery like Joneidys, or another somewhere in the All Things Root.

 

[NeoSabin]

Http://androidforums.com/3158480-post62.html
I think the flash_image wasn't needed but do it anyway unless you can confirm.
Can be done through terminal emulator or adb.

 

[edgchacon]

There was a tutorial using ROM manager before. Then i think ROM manager was updated and it broke using ROM manager on the Optimus M.

Just follow the manual directions and forget ROM Manager, doesn't do too much for our phone anyways.

 

[undacova]

ClockworkMod Recovery works great on our phones, you just need to flash it any other way besides Rom Manager. I would recommend going to xda and downloading FlashimageGUI, it makes it much easier to install any recovery.

Rom Manager will work for our phones someday but for now stay away, lol.

 

[Brickey]

Okay I have Flash image GUI. Can you tell me exactly how install this. using terminal emulator? I could not get adb to work

 

[NeoSabin]

Make sure you downloaded the recovery.img too.
Open terminal emulator then type
su

Then

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /system

Then

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image

Then

chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_ image

Then

mv /system/ etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/ install-recovery.sh.bak

Then

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

Then

sync

please don't type "Then" in terminal emulator. It represent the next line to type after hitting enter. Make sure both files are saved to the root of your SD card.

 

[Brickey]

Uggh I followed the directions and nothing works
Sigh I just cant flash...i keep getting an error system bin
Not found read only file system. Everytibg is on the root
and everything is spelled,typed and spaced right.

 

[undacova]

is your phone rooted?

 

[NeoSabin]

is your phone rooted?

Lol, I assumed he was when he/she said " So I am dowgraded to 2.1 and rooted with
ginger break."

Unless it didn't go well.

Brickey can you try again with each command in terminal emulator then hold your finger on the screen choose copy all and paste here?

 

[Verneverne]

I may be missing something here, but Flash Image GUI off of the market works just fine.

Find the recovery image off of PG's link, download, open Flash Image, select flash recovery, find the image on your SD card and then flash it.

Thats the method I used. No commands needed.

 

[NeoSabin]

I may be missing something here, but Flash Image GUI off of the market works just fine.

Find the recovery image off of PG's link, download, open Flash Image, select flash recovery, find the image on your SD card and then flash it.

Thats the method I used. No commands needed.

2 separate methods, I see the confusion. I thought he got the flash_image file not the app.

 

[alfick3]

CWM does work, I have it on my phone. However, the caveat is that Rom manager needs to be a certain version level for the instructions to work. I think it was 4.3.3.0 but I'm not positive. Now, once you have CWM flashed you can get the upgrades to RM from the market. RM will work to flash different roms. CWM will work as a good recovery a well. Now if you can't find the correct version of RM, then using the flash image GUI will also work well.